The one-day bandh call given by different trade unions got a good response in colliery areas of the district while in town almost all banks, post offices and insurance company offices remain closed. Due to this bandh call, the government suffered loss of crores.
Different political parties and students organisation also supported this bandh call and they too came out in the streets to make the call successful. The students organisation associated with left parties came out early in the morning in the town and closed the colleges and disturbed the classes going on in PG departments of VBU. The student organisations, who were supporting the bandh call, also added the point of non-representation of students in day’s Senate meeting of VBU.
The leaders of political parties sat on a dharna in front of Hazaribagh collectorate gate in support of trade unions charter of demands. Jeevlal Mahto of CPI presided the dharna while Ganesh Citu of CPM anchored the programme. leaders of almost all political parties criticised the BJP led central and state government.
They blamed that the Modi government will have to roll back all the decisions which are anti-labor like it has rolled back from the anti-farmer land acquisition bill.
The response of bandh call was most visible in colliery areas of the district. Though some trade unions were not associated with this bandh call but their supporters remained away from the worksite. A senior leader of such trade union said to pioneer that to avoid tension and clash we decided to remain away.
Due to this bandh, coal production and transportation work almost remained halted. It caused loss of crores to CCl and the companies associated with it specially in transportation work. Students of colliery areas failed to attend their schools and colleges on Wednesday as school bus service provided to them by the company for up-down journey of Hazaibagh remained in the garages.